Entrepreneur Explains Collapsible Safe Room for Schools After Nashville Tragedy

One entrepreneur/inventor has a artistic and seemingly efficient means academics and college students can shield themselves towards college shootings … a protected room embedded in lecture rooms.

We talked to Kevin Thomas Tuesday on “TMZ Live,” and he broke down a product he sells by means of his firm, KT Solutions. It’s mainly 4 foldable partitions — they appear like dry erase whiteboards — a instructor can shortly pull out to create a bulletproof shelter to cover children in a nightmare just like the one in Nashville.

Kevin calls it RASR, or … Rapid Access Safe Rooms. They’re obtainable to the general public, however are meant for lecture rooms — as they provide educators/pupils a fast possibility to hunt cowl and safety within the occasion a mass shooter is roaming the halls … and cops aren’t there but.

Check out the video to see the way it works — the “room” is flat at first and may operate as only one wall or whiteboard for academics and college students … so it has multipurpose utility for the college past simply safety.

If there’s an lively shooter scenario and a faculty desires one thing past locked doorways to assist, they will use RASR to open up a full-blown protected room ok for the navy and authorities companies — so says Thomas. In different phrases, it is impenetrable.

There’s an indication right here that exhibits you tips on how to do it … it is really fairly easy, and solely takes seconds to lock into place. It’s not the everlasting repair to this ongoing concern — as Thomas notes — however this will definitely save lives within the interim.

We requested Thomas what sparked this progressive thought, and he mentioned the Uvalde, TX school shooting pressured his hand. As far as the worth, it is $50k for supply and set up — and whereas one would possibly presume this may come out of a faculty funds … KT says that is not essentially the case.